Southlake

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Mike Hixenbaugh is a Senior Investigative Reporter for NBC News and the co-creator of Southlake, a podcast that won a Peabody for spotlighting the tensions in an affluent Dallas suburb where factions battled for control of the school board in a campaign that mirrored what was happening on a national stage. He's now out with a book, They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New Warfor America's Classrooms. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, June 25, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.2	It's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.4	And today's going to be a different kind of show.
0:11.6	Today's episode is all about a town in the Dallas suburbs that
0:15.2	you may have heard of if you listen to podcasts. South Lake. What's the name of the town? The name of the
0:21.6	podcast. It was the most popular podcast in America. What's the name of the town, the name of the podcast?
0:22.6	It was the most popular podcast in America in early 2022.
0:26.8	The NBC production told the story of South Lake Texas,
0:30.5	which was the site of a couple of racial incidents that made national news.
0:34.0	Kids at a school dance and then in a chat group that got posted on social media saying the
0:39.2	N-word. The podcast South Lake also had some great tape about racial indignities that the school district's few black students were made to feel.
0:49.0	They played then 17 year old Raven Roll, one of the black students, running a recorder as she met with the high school
0:56.0	principal after a boy used the N word in her presence.
1:00.5	Okay, so, whether we said it today or not, or whether we said it a week ago or not.
1:10.0	We reached out to Duhan and the student who's now an adult, but they both declined to comment.
1:16.0	Raven says she expected Principal Duham to help the student understand why hearing white people say the N word is so painful for black people.
1:25.0	Instead, he gave examples of other things you shouldn't say at school.
1:29.0	I don't want those types.
1:31.0	I mean, it doesn't matter if it's, and excuse me if I'm using these words,
1:35.9	gay, homo, any, it doesn't matter what the word is.
1:40.0	Those types of words are not safe for this educational setting.
1:45.7	He goes on.
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